Viktor Barvitius was a Czech painter, representative of modern realism.

In 1864 he graduated from the Prague Academy

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

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, his graduate work was a picture of the Battle of Crecy

Battle of Crécy

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. From 1855 to 1858 lived in Paris, where he studied under Thomas Couture

Thomas Couture

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. In 1860 he returned to Bohemia, then devoted himself to genre painting.

His older brother was the architect Antonín Viktor Barvitius (1823-1901).

Notable works include a portrait of Adolf Kosárek (1853), Čtvrtek ve Stromovce (1860), Slavnost ve Hvězdě, Place de la Concorde (1866) and Čtvrtek ve Stromovce (1885)